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I am not against any military, I understand their role in the modern world. I can also simply recognize the moral and ethical objections to collaborating with a

I am not against any military, I understand their role in the modern world. I can also simply recognize the moral and ethical objections to collaborating with any of them. This being said, in the "civilized" world (the "us" in us vs. them) the US military went above and beyond when it came to providing extra reasons to have such moral objections.

brokenkebab2 4y ago
Your opening lines seem yo be in contradiction with the ending.
jvanderbot 4y ago
Your opinion is valid and understandable, but has no bearing on top-level commenters career decisions. And nobody here really has any solid ground to defend the US in those instances where they have morally slipped, but nobody has any right to say the US should not have a military because of those instances.
- buran77 4y ago
  > has no bearing on top-level commenters career decisions Of course not! Nothing I say here is aimed at influencing career decisions. OP's life choices are their own. I clearly targeted 2 ostensibly objective statements. One was the creative interpretation of "defense" (attacking a country on the other side of the world even for reasons known to be fabricated cannot be called "defense"), and the second was the attempt to call everything "a gray area" to muddy the waters (thus homogenizing and conflating writing software that tracks the websites you visit with helping train the people potentially dropping bombs on weddings). Your job choice is yours alone to make. I can only express disagreement if I were to make it for myself. But I can certainly have a strong objection to redefining or twisting facts to justify that choice. That's not only a transparent attempt of making the choice more palatable in the eyes of others but explaining it like that ironically has the opposite effect.

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I am not against any military, I understand their role in the modern world. I can also simply recognize the moral and ethical objections to collaborating with a

by buran77 4y ago

brokenkebab2 4y ago
Your opening lines seem yo be in contradiction with the ending.
jvanderbot 4y ago
Your opinion is valid and understandable, but has no bearing on top-level commenters career decisions. And nobody here really has any solid ground to defend the US in those instances where they have morally slipped, but nobody has any right to say the US should not have a military because of those instances.
- buran77 4y ago
  > has no bearing on top-level commenters career decisions Of course not! Nothing I say here is aimed at influencing career decisions. OP's life choices are their own. I clearly targeted 2 ostensibly objective statements. One was the creative interpretation of "defense" (attacking a country on the other side of the world even for reasons known to be fabricated cannot be called "defense"), and the second was the attempt to call everything "a gray area" to muddy the waters (thus homogenizing and conflating writing software that tracks the websites you visit with helping train the people potentially dropping bombs on weddings). Your job choice is yours alone to make. I can only express disagreement if I were to make it for myself. But I can certainly have a strong objection to redefining or twisting facts to justify that choice. That's not only a transparent attempt of making the choice more palatable in the eyes of others but explaining it like that ironically has the opposite effect.